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Climate change protestors have come to be seen as part of a verminous brood that global fossil-fuel lobbies and corrupt, weak officials, elected or...
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), told the United Nations Security...
Pillar 1 of the AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, Britain and the United States, envisages the transfer and building of nuclear-powered...
The late centenarian, Jimmy Carter, occupied a difficult position in the line of imperial magistrates we know as US presidents. Coming to power in...
He looked like a young, freshly sprouting Henry Kissinger, before complicity in war crimes began, and plagiarism became commonplace in allegedly...
How reassuring it is to be a mining magnate in Australia. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry...
Mining magnates are the unelected captains of industry. While the official rhetoric might, seemingly, be at odds, especially when it comes to...
Of late, a spate of incidents has taken place in Australia giving sheer delight to the simian-resembling Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton. On a...
The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. W e are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...
The justifications are always the same. We are moving into territory for security reasons. W e are creating a temporary buffer zone from which...
The case concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It involves a dicey attempt by the one of the most ruthless newspaper...
Since making what w as likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and...
Since making what w as likely a life-saving plea deal to spare himself from the medieval barbarities of the US prison system, Julian Assange, and...
The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It saw a dicey attempt by the one of the...
The case that began on September 17 concerning the control of the Murdoch family trust has been decided. It saw a dicey attempt by the one of the...
It was bound to happen. With continuing operations in Gaza, and increasingly violent activities being conducted against Palestinians in the...
Regulating speech at law is much like regulating breath. At what point is an intake of air deemed in appropriate to the body and worthy of...
The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and...
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdo ğ an must be delighted about what is unfolding in Syria , though it is a feeling bound to be tempered by swiftly...
FIFA ha s done it again. With its usual sparkle of inventive interpretation, amoral reasoning, and snappy bravura, the world football federation...
In his ongoing campaign to pad and shield criticism of Israel in the conduct of its war of gross bloodletting in Gaza, Israel’s Prime Minister...
Small to middle-sized states often crow at undertaking what are vulgarly described as “world firsts”. Australia is certainly one of them, with...
A new bloody phase has opened up in Syria , as if it was ever possible to contemplate another one in that tormented land . Silly terms such as “...
The comity of nations , at least when it comes to international humanitarian law, took a rather curious turn with the announcement by France that...
The US submarine base was always going to come first, not for the sake of supplying useless boats for Australia’s phantom defence needs, but for...
The position of a state broadcaster, one funded directly by taxpayer s from a particular country, place s it in a delicate position. The risk of...
Be careful who you condemn and ostracise . They just might be supplying you with a special need . While the United States security establishment...
The slow, often grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the issuing of three arrest warrants by the...
The slow, grinding machinery of international law has just received a push along with the International Criminal Court issuing three arrest...
COP29 was always going to be memorable, if for no other reason than Azerbaijan, the host country, is a petro state and its rulers are indifferent...
The Australian government is being run ragged in various quarters . When ragged, such a beast is bound to seek a distraction. And what better than...
There is something enormously satisfying about seeing those in the war racket worry that their assumptions on conflict have been upended. There...
Joe Courtney, who serves as Congressman for Connecticut’s second district, has received a rather curious honour. It has come in the form of a...
Australia’s establishment parties are running scared. The Albanese Labor government is particularly scared. Tumbling in the polls, increasingly...
COP29 was always going to be memorable , for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan , is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of...
Two more United Nations committee resolutions . Both concerning the conduct of Israel past and current. While disease, hunger and death continue to...
It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of States, the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a...
The scene is memorable enough. November 2016. The Twin Peaks Tavern, Castro District. Men gathered , beside themselves . “It’s shocking how...
It was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive. It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. The First World War...
World War I was catastrophic, cataclysmic and all destructive. It wiped out empires and aristocracies and tore through the middle class. It was a...
Japan’s new prime minister , Shigeru Ishiba , is stirring the pot – notably on regional security matters. He has proposed something that has done...
The timing, as with so much in Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset on October 28 signalled its intent to...
It takes some skill to make Donald J. Trump look good. Two Democrats have succeeded in doing so: Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Kamala Harris in 2024....
The BHP Group , as with other mining giants, has much explaining to do in the way it has approached the environment. It has become a master of the...
From the outset, a question mark hovered over whether Australia’s federal National Anti-Corruption Commission would serve the purpose of shedding...
The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most appropriate. The Israeli Knesset had signalled its intent on...
The British cannot help themselves. They are a meddling island people who conquered huge swathes of the earth in a fictional fit of...
For decades, the cultural phenomenon known as Americanisation has taken place with diffusing e ase . Momentum was gained with the retreat of...
Lock up criminally minded children and teach them a firm lesson. Mind your cars, mind your keys. Chat about the Olympics and moan about whether...